Michael Papendieck is a German photographer born in 1970, dedicated to this since 1989.

Since 2005 he works as a freelance photographer, author and teacher, and since 2009 he teach photography in FF-Fotoschule (Hamburg, Germany)

Nowadays he's based in Braunschweig.

"Complejo-luciferina-luciferasa / Luciferin-luciferase-complex"

"Afrodítico... / Aphroditisch..."

"Dedo del pie / Toe"

«Started with 11 (34 years ago, wow!) with a small compact "thing". My first SLR I´ve got with 14. I tried to take pics like Cousteau and Sielmann. As you can see....they are famous...me not :-D

But I tried hard to improve in the section of wildlife & nature photography. In High School I had a teacher in arts which opened my eyes to "see" pictures not only to "consume" it. I started something like "Applied MacGyverism" to get every pic I could get. More or less without success...but it led me to another way of using my cam.»

"Origami"

"120 Grados / 120 Degrees"

«During my studies and my PhD in biology I came back to nature & wildlife photography. But my other passion, dancing, offered my some new aspects. Dancing for 15 years latin and standard I met lots of beautiful and sexy moving ladies.

In my head I recorded all that pics. Later on I took my cam and went out for body art.

At least I would define myself as a generalist...not being specialised to a certain section of pics.

This is an open art blog, so you could find images eventually offensive or umconfortable.

If you're an artist and find here images of your art you want to be removed, just tell me and I'll do it immediately. I try to ask for permission always if artist is alive and there's a way to contact, bot not always is possible and there are things I think worth to be known.

In any case, the copyrights of all the images contained in this blog, except where noted, belong to the artists or the legal owners of such rights, and have been published nonprofit and for the only purpose of make the works known to the general public.

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